There’s a lot to talk about on this Easter Basket and Bunny Easter Card. Such a fun time to make cards, for Easter and for spring. You can use bunnies, baskets, and flowers! Easter is coming soon, April 1st!
The bunny is from the We Just Celebrate Stamp Set. Yes, the animals in that stamp set are all attached, but I……cut them apart!!!! It was a nerve-wracking decision, but I did it and I think I managed to do it perfectly. Some parts of the stamps are pretty close together so you have to be very, very careful. I wanted to be able to use the animals separately, not always all in a line. The stamp is very cute either way, but I did cut them apart! Yikes! So the Easter bunny is stamped separately and then cut out with my Paper Snips. Actually, I cut the animals apart with my Paper Snips. I figured they were narrow enough to cut in between the animals.
The basket is made with the Basket Weave Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. This folder is available FREE during Sale-A-Bration in a Bundle along with the Blossoming Basket Stamp. This embossing folder is fantastic in the bold way it embosses that basket weave look. It’s best to spritz the cardstock with water to moisten the fibers and make them easier to be pressed into the embossing folder.
I figured this embossing folder would be great for making Easter baskets or just any baskets on cards and projects, and I assumed I would need to cut out a basket shape by hand. But then I saw a tip from another Demonstrator about using the Coffee Cups Framelits Dies to cut out a basket shape! I used the one that looks like the bottom of a cupcake or muffin. For the handle, I used two oval dies to cut out the handle shape and trimmed it down a tiny sliver at the bottom to make it fit the basket.
For another tip, I cut the Easter eggs out of the Sweet Soiree Specialty Designer Series Paper, using some scraps I had. I wondered if there was any chance there was a very small oval die in all of my Big Shot dies……and there was! In the Coffee Cups Framelits Dies! It is in there to fit one of the stamps in the Coffee Cafe Stamp Set. I cut a bunch of Easter eggs since I had the scraps and I’ll use them on other cards as well.
The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Wishes. I wasn’t sure where I wanted to put it on the card so it ended up being like a tag on the basket! The designer paper layer is also Sweet Soiree. The card colors I used were Soft Sky and Old Olive.
Get out some paper, ink and stamps and make some Easter cards and be sure to mail them! Easter is right around the corner. I hope this Easter Basket and Bunny Easter Card gets you in the mood!